State v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2016
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 428 So. 2d 468 - State v. Guajardo · 640 So. 2d 561 - State v. Moore · State v. Moore · State v. Neville · State v. Neville
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“|SA. Although the sentence imposed is legal in every respect, the court may amend or change the sentence, within the legal limits of its discretion, prior.to the beginning of execution of sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LB · State v. Martin“[T]he judges [Louisiana district judges] are strongly against any provision, such as Fed. Rule 35, which authorizes reduction of a sentence after the beginning of its execution. Such a procedure can subject the sentencing judge to continuous harassment by the defendant’s relatives, friends, and attorneys, and would virtually constitute the judge a “one man pardon board” as several of the judges aptly point out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin“in felony cases in which the defendant has been sentenced to imprisonment without hard labor and in misdemeanor cases, the sentencing judge may reduce the sentence or may amend the sentence to place the defendant on supervised probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.